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Mmm, A Recipe Search Engine
By David Utter
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-09-28
The FoodieView search screens the recipes it indexes, so users can query for cucumbers in relative safety.
On its home page, FoodieView recommends using its recipe search to help clean out the refrigerator. A quick query on "turkey sweet pickles" gives back a variety of salad recipes, as well as one for the Cholesterol King Heart Stopper 2000, a six pound sub that can feed 8 people.
Search results can be narrowed with a series of filters on the left side of the result page. Users can filter results by ingredients, type of dish, cuisine, special considerations, and famous chefs, like Emeril Lagasse and Wolfgang Puck.
URLwire notes how FoodieView searches through major cooking-focused web sites, and through smaller sites and blogs focused on ethnic and niche cooking. Once retrieved, users can store favored recipes in a recipe box on the site. Free registration is required to establish the box.
One asset described by FoodieView, the ability to retrieve recipes from several sites without having to visit and register for them, should be a good selling point for it. Currently, the site notes it has over 130,000 recipes indexed.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. Email him here.
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